Quotes from Irving Thalberg

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.